Town to weigh Lakeville Estates civic proposals, approves zombie house coordinator

Janelle Clausen
Bill Cutrone, president of the Lakeville Estates Civic Association. (Photo by Noah Manskar)

Town officials gave credit to Lakeville Estates civic leader Bill Catrone for inspiring a series of proposed measures at a Town Board meeting Tuesday night, ranging from stop signs to a law on paint used to cover graffiti.

According to the resolutions, the Town Board will vote on installing stop signs in Herricks at the intersections of Linden Street and Pine Street, Center Drive and Pine Street, and West Street and North Street on Sept. 6.

“This came to us as a result of a petition from Bill Cutrone on behalf of the Lakeville Estates Civic Association,” Councilman Peter Zuckerman said. “Bill, you did such a terrific job putting together this petition and really getting everyone together on this issue.”

When asked if he wanted to say something on the issue at the meeting, Catrone declined.

The town also set a public hearing date of Sept. 6 for a proposed law that would mandate paint used to cover graffiti “be of the same or substantially similar color as the surface upon which the graffiti was made.”

“So Mr. Cutrone has been very busy,” Supervisor Judi Bosworth said, prompting some laughter from board members.

In unrelated town business, town board members awarded a $72,050 contract to PROCHAMPS, a Florida-based subsidiary of Community Champions, a property management and registration company, to work as the coordinator of its housing quality improvement program.

The position, to be funded by a $159,000 grant from the state attorney general’s office, aims to help the town assemble a comprehensive list of abandoned properties and eventually create a plan to address them.

In other town business, the board authorized an application for a $125,000 grant geared toward a water quality improvement plan for Manhasset Bay.

Bosworth said the Manhasset Bay Protection Committee would partially match the grant with a $41,805 contribution in a “mixture of in kind services and cash.”

The town also approved rescinding parking restrictions on Summit Road between upper and lower Crescent Road in Port Washington.

De Giorgio said that high school students had parked in the area but that since 1998, when Paul D. Schrieber High School added a new student parking lot, it hasn’t been an issue.

Leslie Kress, a Summit Road resident, affirmed that no students have parked down the block and said that since the area is one of one-car driveways, the restrictions made it harder for residents and guests.

In other town business, the town amended a service agreement with PlayPower LT Farmington Inc. to replace a splash pad at Donald Street Park in Roslyn Heights.

Originally the company was to be paid $14,580.99, but a set of cracks in the sub-base and the need for more surface material because the space was larger than originally thought required an additional payment of $5,738.71 for services, the resolution said.

“The splash pad is really the first of many things of what we’d like to do,” Zuckerman said.

In unrelated town business, the town held off on awarding a $1.52 million bid to a contractor for fixing the Leeds Pond culvert in Plandome Manor.

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